Our VLDB 1997 paper [26] reported our first technical results from the AutoAdmin project that was started in Microsoft Research in the summer of 1996. The SQL Server product group at that time had taken on the ambitious task of redesigning the SQL Server code for their next release (SQL Server ). Ease of use and elimination of knobs was a driving force for their design of SQL Server . At the same time, in the database research world, data analysis and mining techniques had become popular. In starting the AutoAdmin project, we hoped to leverage some of.
